Cold War Vocab Terms

2. Act of secretly undermining something in an attempt to destroy it.
4. The demilitarized zone between North and South Korea.
6. Truman's extension of the New Deal that increased minimum wage, expanded Social Security, and constructed low-income housing.
9. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
10. Law passed in 1944 to help returning veterans buy homes and pay for higher educations.
11. US security policy during the Cold War in which military action was used to stop the spread of communism.
12. An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations.
13. A specialized agency of the UN that is concerned with international public health.
14. The idea that if a nation falls under communist control, nearby nations will also fall under communist control.
16. President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism

1. An alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other countries
3. An international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation.
5. A plan for aiding western European nations in economic recovery after World War II to stabilize and rebuild their countries and prevent the spread of communism.
7. Nations favorable to the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe during the Cold War
8. An official statement that a person is loyal to the U.S. government and does not seek its overthrow.
15. Division of Germany after WWII into four regions
17. Cold War competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union to build up their respective armed forces and weapons.